HUC 109 — Argumentation and Debate
This course builds on the basic oral skills developed in Public Speaking (HUC106) and is designed to provide students with the rhetorical and analytical skills necessary for persuasive argumentation and debate. Students will be introduced to differentstyles of debate. Student will also learn to prepare a debate brief and to use flowsheets to structure refutation and rebuttal. The role of argumentation anddebate in a democratic society will also be explored.